Reply #33: My memory is a bit hazy

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But something on this did come out of the Soviet archives after the collapse. I believe the document in question was talked about here:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Hell-Gamble-Khrushchev-1958-1964/dp/0393317900/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1290926230&sr=8-3-fkmr0

Although it might have been somewhere else (I have the book at the office and I'm not there right now). But I have read about it. From what I remember, it wasn't exactly a death wish, but Castro asking that the Soviets use nuclear weapons in the event of a US invasion, an idea the Soviets quickly threw cold water on.